Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN!
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* Completely free. The site is supported by ads and "Google Consumer Surveys" - people are asked to answer a few market-research questions once a day in order to read and download the books.

* Only genealogy-relevant books: 40,000 and growing. These out-of-copyright books have been obtained from FamilySearch, the Allen County Public Library, the Mid-Continent Public Library, and several other libraries.

* Advanced search technology allows searches for people: the names, dates, places, and relatives associated with them, not just words.

* Search results include snippets from the book pages so it's easy to quickly scan the results and find the most-relevant ones.

The website is in beta. Over the coming months I'll be continuing to improve the search algorithms and adding another 60,000 books.

I'm hoping this is a big hit. Free access to records in exchange for answering a few survey questions could open a new avenue for more subscription-free genealogy websites.

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This website sounds like a very useful tool. It's in Beta mode, but it works well. Dallan notes that it is supported by Surveys and Google ads - I can live with that.

In just a few minutes, I found that I could search for persons or places, could read the books found on my computer, could download them in PDF format, and more.

Here's the home page of GenGophers.com:

I looked for books with the surname Seaver in Massachusetts, and found:

I clicked on the second item to see the full page text:

There I saw the first survey. I answered the question and the box went away, showing:

The search term is highlighted on the page. The source information is shown on the left (above an ad). Above the page image are links for "View fullscreen" and "Download PDF."

The typical controls for single page, double page, four-pages, zoom in, zoom out, back a page and forward a page are in the lower right-hand corner of the page. There is a slide bar to move quickly forward and backward in the book. They all work.

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I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
My wife (Angel Linda) and I have two lovely daughters, and five darling grandchildren. We love to visit them and have them visit us.
Angel Linda and I love to travel to visit friends and relatives, to sightsee, to cruise or to do genealogy. Our travels have taken us all over the USA, to England, Down Under and Scandinavia.
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